Friday, 9 July 2021

Meditation and its effects on health

 

Meditation is to calm the mind and expand consciousness. People do meditation practice, and it has been known since a long time ago.   

Meditation is a source of inspiration, and it is helpful in coping with chronic disorders or stress.  Due to psychological stress, many disorders are developed and meditation practices such as mindfulness meditation are beneficial for reducing stress, depression and anxiety.

According to the study reveals patients with active depression and anxiety have participated in meditation course showed a reduction of both depression and anxiety. Yoga practising is also examined in many studies as a depression treatment and showed some promising results even in distressed women.

Meditation is to calm the mind.  The main practice is to achieve ‘naked’ awareness without content.  There are also meditative techniques like:

  • Mindfulness
  • Concentration and
  • Automatic self-transcendence

One can do mindfulness meditation which can be described as non-elaborative and non-judgmental awareness.  Mindfulness training is thought to be beneficial for health due to developing new emotion regulation strategies like observing and accepting emotions without judgement.

Nowadays, across the world, people are using these practices in order to obtain well-being, improve their condition in chronic diseases and reduce stress.  The main purpose of practising mindfulness to become more reflective and more resistant to unpleasantness inside us which is thought to be beneficial for our psychical health.  It is enlightenment of our hearts.

Constantly, in order to keep pace with the changing scenario, human is exposed to stress.  Due to which people are suffering from psychological stress in order to adapt to changing environments and thus it triggers too many physiological responses like the nervous system, peripheral organs, immune system but also the brain which eventually will have an impact on behaviour. 

Keeping in mind the stress, two therapies have come into rescue one is Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and another one is just usual therapy alone (TAU group).  As a result, the study showed a positive effect and beneficial in treating especially of those who have symptoms of active depression and anxiety. 

Meditation does bring significant improvements in mood, stress, sleep quality, well-being, and mental health component of quality of life. 

Online meditation is also examined for its efficacy.  This online programme is comprised of modules from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.  This module is extremely helpful for those who have post-traumatic stress disorder because it helps in reducing the symptoms.  It also showed greater improvements of those who are alcoholics and smokers.  It has been noticed with meditation intervention, improved mental health and decreased stress, anxiety, and depression.

Broadly classified the influence of meditation on migraines.  It has been divided into four groups:

  • Spiritual Meditation
  • Internally Focused Secular Meditations
  • Externally Focused Secular Meditation and
  • Progressive Muscle Relaxation

The main result is to decrease the frequency of migraine headaches.


Meditation has been popularized as a holistic wellness approach. It is the effectiveness of depression treatment.  Participating in meditation classes resulted in the reduction of depression, anger, anxiety, neurotic symptoms and low-frequency heart rate variability. Results suggest meditation as a promising intervention.  Moreover, related psychological outcomes are improved.

For ages, meditation is a practice known but only decades ago it started gaining popularity across the world.  Many studies of meditation practices revealed immense beneficial effects on depression, mood, anxiety and stress. Nowadays people are under more and more stress, meditation may be a useful practice in maintaining health and wellbeing.

People are more aware of the effects of practices such as mindfulness meditation or yoga and consider their pivotal role especially in addressing psychological stress.  In meditation, it has been controlled through mental silence approach to meditation and then relaxation to active control which gives a significant improvement of reduced work stress and depressed mood.  However, further researches on meditation practices are still needed.

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